Course: The Living Picture Craze: An Introduction to Victorian Film

Here you can watch and listen to Britain’s oldest ‘sound film’. This is Lil Hawthorne (1877-1926), a well-known American singer from Nashville, Illinois, performing the song ‘Kitty Mahone’. The film …

Welcome back to Week 3 of the The Living Picture Craze. “We are not amused”, Queen Victoria famously said – or so we are told. Her subjects, though, were eager …

Queen Victoria was one of the celebrities of early film. Royal events and processions had guaranteed appeal. Victoria was not the first member of the British royal family to be …

In this video, Bryony Dixon and Joe Kember discuss the popular and enduring travel genre. Impressively, almost right from the start, companies sent cameramen all over the world to record …

Here you can watch Tram Rides through Nottingham (1902) by Mitchell and Kenyon, a filmmaking duo you will learn more about later in the week. Please note: This film has …

In this video our experts explore some of the possible limitations in our knowledge around the Victorians and the Victorian age. While Ian Christie encourages us to reconsider the term …

Why are these films important? Why should we study them? What can they tell us about the Victorian age and the innovators who made them? Queen Victoria’s reign famously saw …

Who are the BFI? Established in 1933, the BFI is the UK’s lead organisation for film, television and the moving image. It is a cultural charity that has many functions …